InfoSphere Discovery

Automate discovery of hidden data relationships

IBM InfoSphere Discovery automates the discovery of data relationships—from simple to complex, within and across heterogeneous systems. This comprehensive solution allows you to create a complete 360-degree view of your data assets. You can gain up to a 90 percent reduction in analysis time, greater accuracy and higher levels of visibility into potential data problems.

Discover hidden data relationships to define business objects such as customer, patient or invoice. A business object represents a group of related attributes (columns and tables) or data from one or more applications, databases or data sources.

InfoSphere Discovery is also used to identify the transformation rules that have been applied to a source system when populating a target such as a data warehouse or an operational data store.

Once accurately defined, these business objects and transformation rules provide the essential input into information-centric projects such as data integration, MDM and archiving.

InfoSphere Discovery analyzes the data values and patterns across heterogeneous sources to capture hidden correlations and bring them clearly into view.

This software accommodates the widest range of enterprise data sources, including relational databases, and any structured data source that can be represented in a text file format, such as a hierarchical database.

Facilitate data archiving projects

A critical first step in any data archiving project is the accurate representation of the business object to be archived.

InfoSphere Discovery complements the IBM Optim Data Growth solution by capturing both database-defined and application-managed relationships that make up the business object to be archived.

By using these products together, you can easily implement best practice archiving capabilities to reduce storage requirements and lower costs.

Accurately implement data consolidation projects

InfoSphere Discovery automates the identification of complex, cross-system transformation and undocumented business rules.

It discovers scalar transformations, conditional logic, aggregations, arithmetic equations and other complex business rules that would be nearly impossible to identify by manual inspection alone.

Using InfoSphere Discovery, IT staff can prototype and test new transformation rules for completeness before they convert and move any data.